Full Description
This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists, it looks to the arts for insight into human character and explores the arts' relationship to human flourishing and the development of the virtues.
Focusing on the moral value of art and considering questions of whether there can be educational value in imaginative and non-narrative art, the nine chapters herein critically examine whether poetry, music, literature, films, television series, videogames, and even gardening may improve our understanding of human character, sharpen our moral judgement, inculcate or refine certain skills required for virtue, or perhaps cultivate certain virtues (or vices) themselves.
Bringing together research on aesthetics, ethics, moral and character education, this book will appeal to students, researchers and academics of philosophy, arts, and education as well as philosophers of education, morality, aesthetics, and teachers of the arts.
Contents
1. Is the Ethos Theory of Music Correct? 2. The Uses of Poetry and Other Imaginative Literature for the Education of Virtuous Sentiment and Character 3. Literature, the Emotions, and Learning 4. Literary Appreciation and the Reconfiguration of Understanding 5. Heroines and Sexy Victims: What we learn from female protagonists 6. Virtue and Vice on TV: Television series and ethical reflection 7. Are You (Relevantly) Experienced? A moral argument for video games 8. Gardens and the Good Life in Confucianism and Daoism 9. Educating the Heart: Why poetry matters
